Ubuntu 18.04-1 LTS Bionic Beaver

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
(Long-Term Support) for its Desktop, Server, and Cloud products, as well
as other flavours of Ubuntu with long-term support.

As usual, this point release includes many updates, and updated
installation media has been provided so that fewer updates will need to
be downloaded after installation. These include security updates and
corrections for other high-impact bugs, with a focus on maintaining
stability and compatibility with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Sabayon 2.0.0 is out!

We are happy to announce that Devuan GNU+Linux 2.0 ASCII Stable is
finally available.

Devuan is a GNU+Linux distribution committed to providing a universal,
stable, dependable, free software operating system that uses and
promotes alternatives to systemd and its components.

Devuan 2.0 ASCII runs on several architectures. Installer CD and DVD
ISOs, as well as desktop-live and minimal-live ISOs, are available for
i386 and amd64. Ready-to-use images can be downloaded for a number of
ARM platforms and SOCs, including Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, OrangePi,
BananaPi, OLinuXino, Cubieboard, Nokia and Motorola mobile phones, and
several Chromebooks, as well as for Virtualbox/QEMU/Vagrant.

Distribution Release: Quirky 8.4

Quirky Linux 8.4 x86_64 is codenamed "Xerus" and is built using the woofQ Quirky Linux build system, with the help of Ubuntu 16.04.3 binary packages. Thus, Xerus has compatibility with all of the Ubuntu repositories.
Quirky is a fork of Puppy Linux, and is mainly differentiated by being a "full installation" only, with special snapshot and recovery features, and Service Pack upgrades, though recently there is limited support for live-CD session-saving and "frugal" installation.
Version 8.4 has many architectural improvements and package upgrades, including new packages Sakura, Refind, EasyApps, PupControl, VTE and EasyShare. EasyShare is a simple "one top shop" for network file sharing and printing, using Samba and SSHFS. Upgraded applications include Pclock (0.8.2) and seaMonkey (2.49.1). The Linux kernel is now version 4.14.17.

Rolling version Arch Linux

A simple, lightweight distribution

You've reached the website for Arch Linux, a lightweight and flexible Linux® distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.

Currently we have official packages optimized for the x86-64 architecture. We complement our official package sets with a community-operated package repository that grows in size and quality each and every day.

What’s new in Endless OS 3.3.5

Sign-on improvements. We’ve made it easier for users who mix English and non-English languages in their password to switch languages while signing in to unlock their computer.

Improvements to apps. The new version of Flatpak and Flatpak Builder adds new features and fixes many bugs. This means users will see improvements to their apps such as:
Missing icons will now appear in some apps like Telegram
Prevented a situation where apps wouldn’t be able to connect to the internet after changing from one wireless network to another
Improvements to language and localization selection
Graphics hardware acceleration support for ARM (your apps will work better on Endless Mini and Mission Mini)
*Bron: ENDLESS

Debian 9: 9.2 released 09 10 2017

October 7th, 2017

The Debian project is pleased to announce the second update of its stable distribution Debian 9 (codename "stretch"). This point release mainly adds corrections for security issues, along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories have already been published separately and are referenced where available.

Please note that the point release does not constitute a new version of Debian 9 but only updates some of the packages included. There is no need to throw away old "stretch" media. After installation, packages can be upgraded to the current versions using an up-to-date Debian mirror.

Those who frequently install updates from security.debian.org won't have to update many packages, and most such updates are included in the point release.

New installation images will be available soon at the regular locations.
*Bron Debian

feren OS is now Rolling Release!

After a long time, LOTS of blood, sweat and tears put into it, and lots of password entering, feren OS can now finally say it's a Rolling Release Operating System built on the foundations of Mint, designed to be Stable. This Snapshot is based on Linux Mint 18.2, and is a defining point for feren OS as a distribution.

01-10-2017 *Bron Feren

Feren heeft een eigen pagina bij Linux Vrienden. Midden column.

03 10 2017 A new Snapshot of feren OS, codenamed Oxygen, has been released for both 32 Bit and 64 Bit Devices

Spitfire Manjaro Special Edition

OK, community – we have now worked on this for months, and the results are simply astounding. In association with Station X the Manjaro Team is very proud to announce our first Laptop, together with a hardware manufacturer especially designed for our beloved community.

If you’re looking for the sleekest Linux laptop in existence, then look no further. The Spitfire is a head turner – with lots and lots of muscle. Powered with 7th Generation Intel Core Processors, up to 32GB RAM and dual drive bays, the Spitfire can take whatever you can throw at it. And keep going.

With a super-light all-aluminum chassis, and a killer 1080p IPS display, the Spitfire can run Manjaro at blazing speed.

The Spitfire model has undergone some serious surgery to become the ultimate marriage of hardware and software. We, the Manjaro team have created a very special edition of our flagship XFCE distribution fully tuned to the Spitfire. From intricate kernel tweaks, to streamlined settings, and even custom changes to battery, cpu, and even sound settings – the Spitfire has now become the ultimate Manjaro Machine.

And it will look the part as well – with a diamond-laser etched Manjaro logo on the lid and fully custom designed XFCE themes, wallpapers, and icons designed specially for Station X by the Manjaro Team.

Q4OS 1.8.8, Orion. 15 sept. 2017

15 09 2017
The new Q4OS 1.8.8 stable release updates core system packages and implements improvements. Q4OS Orion 1.8.8 is based on Debian 8.9 Jessie and Trinity R14.0.4 desktop environment, it's the maintenance release of the Q4OS 1.8 'Orion' series, and is built on and updates the previous version. Google Chrome, the default Live CD web browser, has been upgraded to its most recent version 61.0.3163.79. Other improvements include polished GTK3 themes, new first boot Systemd configuration script, and more.

Important security fixes and packages updates are provided as well. All the updates are immediately available for existing Q4OS users from the regular Q4OS repositories.

05 09 2017 – Tiny Core Linux 8.1

Welcome to The Core Project.
The Core Project is a highly modular based system with community build extensions.
It starts with a recent Linux kernel, vmlinuz, and our root filesystem and start-up scripts packaged with a basic set of kernel modules in core.gz. Core (11MB) is simply the kernel + core.gz - this is the foundation for user created desktops, servers, or appliances. TinyCore is Core + Xvesa.tcz + Xprogs.tcz + aterm.tcz + fltk-1.3.tcz + flwm.tcz + wbar.tcz
TinyCore becomes simply an example of what the Core Project can produce, an 16MB FLTK/FLWM desktop.
CorePlus ofers a simple way to get started using the Core philosophy with its included community packaged extensions enabling easy embedded frugal or pendrive installation of the user's choice of supported desktop, while maintaining the Core principal of mounted extensions with full package management.
It is not a complete desktop nor is all hardware completely supported. It represents only the core needed to boot into a very minimal X desktop typically with wired internet access.
The user has complete control over which applications and/or additional hardware to have supported, be it for a desktop, a netbook, an appliance, or server, selectable by the user by installing additional applications from online repositories, or easily compiling most anything you desire using tools provided.
The latest version: 8.1
*Bron TinyCore

Updated Debian 9: 9.4 released

March 10th, 2018

The Debian project is pleased to announce the fourth update of its stable distribution Debian 9 (codename "stretch"). This point release mainly adds corrections for security issues, along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories have already been published separately and are referenced where available.

Please note that the point release does not constitute a new version of Debian 9 but only updates some of the packages included. There is no need to throw away old "stretch" media. After installation, packages can be upgraded to the current versions using an up-to-date Debian mirror.

Those who frequently install updates from security.debian.org won't have to update many packages, and most such updates are included in the point release.

SliTaz 5.0 Rolling 4-2-2018

SliTaz GNU/Linux is a free operating system working completely in memory from removable media such as a CD-ROM or USB key. It is light, speedy and fully installable on a hard drive. SliTaz is distributed in the form of a LiveCD that you can easily burn to a cdrom and boot from. When the system is running you can eject the LiveCD and use your CD drive for other tasks. The Live system provides a fully-featured, working graphical distro and lets you keep your data and personal settings on persistent media. The system can be extended with the Tazpkg package manager and security updates are provided for the cooking and stable versions.
*Bron Slitaz
Linux Vrienden werken al met Slitaz sinds versie één. Snel en maar 52 MB groot. Echt een aanrader.

FerenOS 2018.01

Updating to January Snapshot.
If you're reading this on January 1st, well, Happy New Year! Meanwhile, to kick off 2018, a new snapshot of feren OS has been released for computers with the 32 bit architecture and the 64 bit architecture, and like the previous snapshot, it comes with plenty of updates, and for this release, a seriously big change. Listed below are the changes I remember, and how to upgrade: New Background Set
This release is packed with a new set of wallpapers, namely being a new Unsplash Wallpaper Set, as well as new wallpapers from a new artist to the wallpaper set, being Karl Schneider. Also, if the wallpaper set isn't enough for you, you can now add 'feren-extra-backgrounds' via the Software Manager.
*Bron Feren

Fatdog64 720 Final 20-12-2017

The Fatdog team (Kirk, James, SFR and step) is happy to announce the next version of Fatdog64, 720 Final.

Fatdog64 720 Final is the next iteration of Fatdog64. It is still built on the same base as Fatdog64 710 so it has a high-degree of compatibility with 710 packages; however it has been expanded, improved, and modified to meet today's challenge.

Much of the improvements in this release are from SFR and step.

We like to thank those who have provided feedback, suggestions, advices, bug reports, bug fixes in the Beta cycle and in the previous releases. You know who you are.

We like to thank all users of Fatdog64. We hope you will be satisfied with this distro. Let us know.
*Bron FatDog
(van harte aanbevolen door Linux Vrienden!)

FreeNas 11.1 Now Here

FreeNAS 11.1 Provides Greater Performance and Cloud Integration

The FreeNAS Development Team is excited and proud to present FreeNAS 11.1! FreeNAS 11.1 adds cloud integration, OpenZFS performance improvements, including the ability to prioritize resilvering operations, and preliminary Docker support to the world’s most popular software-defined storage operating system. This release includes an updated preview of the beta version of the new administrator graphical user interface, including the ability to select display themes
*Bron FreeNas

Linux Mint 18.3 LTS Release

Linux Mint 18.3 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2021. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use.
*Bron Linux Mint

Kali Linux 2017.3 Release

November 21, 2017dookieKali Linux Releases

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Kali Linux 2017.3, which includes all patches, fixes, updates, and improvements since our last release. In this release, the kernel has been updated to 4.13.10 and it includes some notable improvements:

CIFS now uses SMB 3.0 by default
EXT4 directories can now contain 2 billion entries instead of the old 10 million limit
TLS support is now built into the kernel itself

In addition to the new kernel and all of the updates and fixes we pull from Debian, we have also updated our packages for Reaver, PixieWPS, Burp Suite, Cuckoo, The Social Engineering Toolkit, and more. Take a look at the Kali Changelog to see what else has been updated in this release, or read on to see what else is new.
*Bron Kali Linux 21-11-2017

Redcore Linux Project

Hey there Redcore lovers. It is my pleasure to announce that Redcore Linux 1710, codename Helvetios, ISO is now ready and available for download from the usual place. This one is very special, as Redcore Linux just turned 1 year old. So, we packed it with plenty new features and we did our best to make it the best Redcore Linux release to date.
*Bron Redcore 11 11 2017

Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark)

Codenamed "Artful Aardvark", Ubuntu 17.10 continues Ubuntu's proud
tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technology
into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. As always, the
team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features
and fixing bugs.

Under the hood, there have been updates to many core packages, including
a new 4.13-based kernel, glibc 2.26, gcc 7.2, and much more.

Ubuntu Desktop has had a major overhaul, with the switch from Unity as
our default desktop to GNOME3 and gnome-shell. Along with that, there
are the usual incremental improvements, with newer versions of GTK and
Qt, and updates to major packages like Firefox and LibreOffice.

Ubuntu Server 17.10 includes the Pike release of OpenStack, alongside
deployment and management tools that save devops teams time when
deploying distributed applications - whether on private clouds, public
clouds, x86, ARM, or POWER servers, z System mainframes, or on developer
laptops. Several key server technologies, from MAAS to juju, have been
updated to new upstream versions with a variety of new features.

The newest Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE,
Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu are also being released today. More details
can be found for these at their individual release notes:
*Bron Ubuntu 19 10 2017

ArchLabs 17 09 2017

ArchLabs Linux is an Arch Linux based distro, heavily influenced and inspired by the look and feel of BunsenLabs.
Mínimo has under-gone some fine tuning, mainly with the addition of a brilliant Hello/Welcome script written by Nate. Known as AL-Hello, this script will aid in (for those of you who are in a hurry, or just can’t be bothered installing one by one) the addition of extra software that we don’t include out of the box. You can install up to 60 different apps and utilities, including image and video apps, web browsers, editors office apps and many more.

Antergos x64 Live

Antergos is available to everyone for free. You can download it and make as many copies as you want. All you have to do is download the iso image, burn it on a CD/DVD or write it to a USB, and enjoy.
The Live Install Image allows you to try a fully functional Antergos environment without making any changes to the current state of your system. When you are ready, you can create a permanent place for Antergos on your system using our GUI installer. You can install Antergos along side your existing operating system(s) or on its own, you decide.
*Bron Antergos
In Live modus werkt alles volgens verwachting 04 06 2017
Installatie verslag volgt!

Slax 9.7.0 is here

Slax Linux
Your pocket operating system

Slax is a modern, portable, small and fast Linux operating system with modular approach and outstanding design. It runs directly from your USB flash drive without installing, so you can carry it everywhere you go in your pocket. Despite its small size, Slax provides nice graphical user interface and the only two programs everyone really needs: a Web browser and a Terminal.

Slax is now based on Debian, which gives you the ability to benefit from its entire ecosystem. Tens of thousands of prebuilt packages with applications, all within reach thanks to apt command.

LMDE 3 Cindy Information

LMDE is a Linux Mint project and it stands for "Linux Mint Debian Edition".

Its main goal is for the Linux Mint team to see how viable our distribution would be and how much work would be necessary if Ubuntu was ever to disappear. LMDE aims to be as similar as possible to Linux Mint, but without using Ubuntu. The package base is provided by Debian instead.

There are no point releases in LMDE. Other than bug fixes and security fixes Debian base packages stay the same, but Mint and desktop components are updated continuously. When ready, newly developed features get directly into LMDE, whereas they are staged for inclusion on the next upcoming Linux Mint point release.

If you’re already using Fedora, you can upgrade from the command line or use GNOME Software for an easy graphical update — upgrade instructions here. We’ve put a lot of work into making upgrades simple and fast. In most cases, this will take half an hour or so, bringing you right back to a working system with no hassle. (Personally, I ran the commands on my main desktop right before bedtime last night, and came back to a perfectly working system when I woke up.)
*Bron Fedora

SwagArch 18.04 released

What is SwagArch GNU/Linux ?
• SwagArch is a beautiful and easy to use Arch Linux based Distribution.
• SwagArch comes with the stable, light and configurable Xfce desktop environment.
• The official repositories from Arch Linux are used.
• Workflow and Efficiency optimized.
• Remixed with archiso.

Heads 0.4

Welcome to heads! Hello fellow traveler! Welcome, heads is a libre (free as in freedom) GNU/Linux distribution. It aims to be a distro that respects your privacy, freedom, and helps you to stay secure and anonymous.

Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS released

These release notes for Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS (Xenial Xerus) provide an overview of the release and document the known issues with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and its flavours. For details of the changes applied since 16.04, please see the 16.04.4 change summary. The release notes for 16.04, 16.04.1, 16.04.2 and 16.04.3 are available as well.

Support lifespan

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS will be supported for 5 years for Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Core, and Ubuntu Kylin. All other flavours will be supported for 3 years.

Bodhi Linux 4.4.0 Released

by Jeff Hoogland · 08 12 2017

Today I am pleased to announce the release of Bodhi Linux 4.4.0. This is a normal update release and it comes three months after the release of Bodhi 4.3.1. Existing Bodhi 4.x.y users do not need to reinstall as the primary goal of this update release is to simply keep the current ISO image up to date. This release image includes EFL 1.19.1, Terminology 1.1.0, Ephoto 1.5, and Linux kernel 4.13. As with every release in the 4.x.y Bodhi series it is built on top of the rock solid foundation that is Ubuntu 16.04.
*Bron Bodhi

ReactOS 0.4.7 released!

06 12 2017
The ReactOS Project is pleased to announce the release of version 0.4.7 as we continue to work on releasing every three months.

We’re especially pleased to present this release as the very first one that’s been developed in our new Git/GitHub repository. Moving from Subversion to GitHub has proven to be an invaluable way to reach new testers, users and improve the overall awareness of the ReactOS project.

To highlight the impact we’ve had since we moved to GitHub two months ago, ReactOS now leads the Win32Api and OsDev categories in Github, overtaking many amazing and well established projects.

New BlackArch Linux 24 11 2017

Today we released new BlackArch Linux ISOs. For details see the ChangeLog below.

Here's the ChangeLog:

added more than 50 new tools
various clean-ups and tweaks
updated blackarch installer to version 0.6
included kernel 4.13.12
updated all blackarch tools and packages
updated all system packages
update all window manager menus (awesome, fluxbox, openbox)

We wish to thank all of BlackArch's users, mirrors, and supporters. Thanks for your help.
*BlackArch

Black Lab Enterprise 05 11 2017

Today we are pleased to announce the first public beta release of Black Lab Enterprise Linux 11.5. With this release we have made several enhancements to the Black Lab Enterprise Linux system. We have increased driver capabilities with the inclusion of a new kernel and we now have better performance. We have also worked on web app capability and with the Chromium Web Browser you now have the same functionality as Chrome OS as well as the ability to use standard Linux applications.
*Bron Black-Lab

Subgraph OS 25 09 2017

Subgraph believes that the best way to empower people to communicate and live freely is to develop technology that is secure, free, open-source, and verifiably trustworthy.

Subgraph OS is an important part of that vision.

The Internet is a hostile environment, and recent revelations have made it more apparent than ever before that risk to every day users extends beyond the need to secure the network transport - the endpoint is also at risk.

Subgraph OS was designed from the ground-up to reduce the risks in endpoint systems so that individuals and organizations around the world can communicate, share, and collaborate without fear of surveillance or interference by sophisticated adversaries through network borne attacks.

Subgraph OS is designed to be difficult to attack. This is accomplished through system hardening and a proactive, ongoing focus on security and attack resistance. Subgraph OS also places emphasis on the integrity of installable software packages. *Bron Subgraph

Legacy OS september 2017

Legacy OS 2.1 LTS Now over 45,000 Downloads.

Some Youtube Reviews just don't get it!

At first it's funny watching a review done by someone on Legacy OS that just doesn't get what Legacy OS is all about. Then you realize this person is actually doing more damage then good by doing such a review. Personally when I watch a review I want the person doing the review to have spent time using the system their reviewing. I want them to highlight the good and the bad. Only though using such a System can they make an informed judgement and write a useful review. For some reason a lot of reviewers on Youtube think just by going through the menu reading out the available Applications that makes a review. Well it doesn't, especially when they have no real knowledge of the Applications their talking about.